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VoidCon 3: Confirmed Guests, Date + What You Need to Know
- The Curator
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Updated: 10 hours ago
Step Into the Shadows: Your Guide to VoidCon 3 at Gettysburg College
Get ready, horror lovers and weird fiction aficionados - VoidCon 3 is descending upon Gettysburg College from October 9-11, 2025, and it’s shaping up to be the creepiest, most compelling celebration of the strange and speculative yet.
Where & When
The haunted halls of Gettysburg College will once again host this beloved genre convention. The main events span three days, with a special kickoff planned for those with VIP access:
Thursday, October 9 (Evening Only):
A Welcome Event for VIP attendees will take place in Room 260 of the College Union Building. It’s the perfect way to meet fellow fans, creators, and panelists before the main festivities begin.
Friday & Saturday, October 10–11 (All Day):
The heart of VoidCon comes alive with a Book Fair, author readings, and panel presentations, all held in The Attic, located inside the West Building on campus.
Where to Stay
Lodging in Gettysburg can get tight during October - VoidCon shares the weekend with the bustling Apple Harvest Festival, so hotel rooms are expected to book up fast.
To get the best rates and a central location, we highly recommend reserving a room ASAP. Our top lodging pick is:
Quality Inn Gettysburg Battlefield
380 Steinwehr Avenue, Gettysburg, PA
This location puts you within walking distance of the action and offers easy access to the college campus, local eateries, and the eerie charm of historic Gettysburg.
Confirmed Guests
Whether you’re attending for the hauntingly good panels, the brilliant speculative authors, or just the community of readers and fans who thrive in the dark corners of fiction - VoidCon 3 promises an unforgettable experience.
We’ve prepared a list below of the confirmed guests including their works and associated links.
Weirdpunk Books
Weirdpunk Books is a fiercely independent horror publisher, founded in Minneapolis in 2015 by Sam Richard and Emma Alice Johnson, that embraces grotesque, bizarre, and taboo fiction. Specializing in body horror, cosmic terror, splatterpunk, and transgressive narratives, their standout anthologies - The New Flesh, inspired by David Cronenberg, and Blood for You, channeling GG Allin’s chaotic energy - capture their raw, punk-infused aesthetic. Offering readers an ongoing fix through their subscription service, the “Weirdpunk Sub Club,” Weirdpunk Books exists to push boundaries, unsettle the norm, and haunt your bookshelf with delightfully disturbing tales.
Castaigne Publishing
Castaigne Publishing is a fiercely indie horror press that merges transgressive fiction with the raw energy of black metal and punk, offering limited-run, print-only books for readers who crave the strange and subversive. Self-dubbed “The Imperial Dynasty of True Indie Publishing,” they’ve built a cult following through wild anthologies like In the Shadow of the Horns and off-the-rails releases like Tone-Bone and Histories of Mgo. With their signature blend of the surreal, the grotesque, and the underground, Castaigne isn’t just publishing books - they’re summoning a movement.
GenreBlast Books
GenreBlast Books is the literary offshoot of the underground cult favorite GenreBlast Film Festival - a gleefully unhinged publishing imprint that thrives on horror, sci-fi, exploitation, and pitch-black humor. Co-founded by Nathan D. Ludwig and Chad Farmer, this indie press is a grindhouse fever dream in paperback form, serving up twisted titles like The Comfy-Cozy Nihilist, Devil Won’t Let Me Be, and the double-feature novella set Midnight Maniacs. With a DIY backbone and a love for genre-mashing chaos, GenreBlast Books deals in limited-run, signed editions that feel like midnight movies for your brain. It’s pulp fiction dipped in blood, sweat, and cinematic sleaze - perfect for readers who want their fiction loud, weird, and unapologetically indie
Merigold Independent
Merigold Independent isn’t your average arts label - it’s a fever dream stitched together with ambient drones, experimental fiction, and arthouse grit. Founded by Samuel Laubscher out of Atlanta, this genre-defying collective lives by the mantra: “a label, a publisher, whatever it needs to be.” What that means in practice? Limited-run releases that feel like relics from another dimension. We’re talking eerie soundscapes from the likes of Caminauta and Deantoni Parks, mind-bending fiction from Charlene Elsby and David Kuhnlein, and short films that feel like ritual performances caught on tape. If your soul craves art that whispers, screams, and distorts reality all at once - Merigold Independent is your next obsession.
Tenebrous Press
Tenebrous Press isn’t just dipping its toes into the weird - they’re cannonballing straight into the bizarre. Born in 2020 and co-helmed by Alex Woodroe (in Cluj, Romania) and Matt Blairstone (in Portland, Oregon), this indie press is a cathedral for New Weird Horror - that deliciously genre-melting blend of horror, surrealism, and speculative fiction that feels like a fever dream wrapped in razor wire. With an ironclad no-AI policy and a big heart for ethical publishing, Tenebrous puts its money where its monstrous mouth is, spotlighting diverse, unsung voices and treating authors like actual humans (imagine that). From the grotesque beauty of Puppet’s Banquet to the annual chaos of Brave New Weird and the surreal pages of Skull & Laurel, Tenebrous Press isn’t just publishing stories - they’re summoning nightmares with purpose.
Bruiser Mag
BRUISER isn’t just a magazine - it’s a middle finger to the literary status quo wrapped in a zine and howling from Baltimore. Fueled by the punk-as-hell manifesto “There are no rules. All good art is degenerate. Genre is meaningless,” this beautifully chaotic arts mag slings poetry, fiction, essays, comix, and experimental media like Molotov cocktails. They don’t just blur lines - they smear them with blood, sweat, and ink. From limited-run oddities like Cutting Promos - a poetic suplex of pro wrestling erasure art - to an always-open call for weirdos across every medium imaginable, BRUISER is where raw vision meets unapologetic rebellion. If your art doesn’t fit in anywhere else, it probably belongs here.
Filthy Loot
Filthy Loot is a boundary-pushing indie press out of Ames, Iowa, founded by Ira Rat in 2018, that thrives on horror, transgressive fiction, and the gloriously weird. Specializing in “misfit fictions,” they publish zines and books like Fucked Up Stories to Read in the Daytime, Shagging the Boss, and The Vine That Ate the Starlet, all dripping with punk-rock attitude and literary chaos. With offshoot imprints like Talented Perverts (for highbrow degeneracy) and Control (for raw, non-fiction truths), plus the Not Interview Series spotlighting unconventional voices, Filthy Loot is a publishing house for readers who like their fiction strange, sharp, and completely unfiltered.
B.R. Yeager
B.R. Yeager is a boundary-smashing horror author from Western Massachusetts whose work blends occult unease, teenage nihilism, and surreal dread into something utterly unforgettable. Best known for his cult hit Negative Space, a brutal deep-dive into grief, drugs, and supernatural horror, Yeager’s fiction pulls no punches - melding fragmented storytelling with atmospheric terror. From the internet-fried nightmare of Amygdalatropolis to the raw chaos of Burn You the Fuck Alive, his stories feel like urban legends rewritten by something ancient and angry. Yeager isn’t just writing horror - he’s weaponizing it.
M. Lopes da Silva
M. Lopes da Silva isn’t just an author - they’re a genre-smashing, gender-fanged fever dream walking the line between pulp sleaze and existential horror. Hailing from Los Angeles and armed with a pen dipped in blood, glitter, and righteous queer rage, da Silva slashes through the mundane with works like Hooker and What Ate the Angels. Think neon-lit sex work noir, ASMR-fueled body horror, and mythic dread wrapped in non-binary angst and trans-masc transcendence. Whether they’re spilling guts in poetry, short fiction, or tearing it up on horror podcasts, da Silva is the literary equivalent of a haunted mixtape - equal parts seduction, scream, and scorched earth.
O.F. Cieri
O.F. Cieri is the kind of literary chaos agent you pray to encounter in a midnight subway tunnel or a dusty occult record store. Based in New York and wired into the city’s electric grime, Cieri weaves queerness, horror, and high-concept weirdness into stories that feel like fever dreams wrapped in subway smoke. Her breakout novel Lord of Thundertown dives headfirst into the mythic gutters of NYC, while Lockdown Laureate cracks open 22 illustrated, pandemic-era snapshots soaked in art, angst, and apocalypse. Then there’s Backmask - a backwards-spun love letter to ’60s pop, satanic panic, and brain-melting nostalgia. Whether she’s conjuring literary seances or tearing apart genre with a switchblade smile, Cieri doesn’t just write stories - she builds portals and dares you to jump in.
Charlene Elsby
Charlene Elsby writes like a philosopher possessed and bleeds like a pulp antihero. Armed with a Ph.D. in Aristotle and a mind that chews through trauma like glass, this Canadian word-witch merges high-concept philosophy with blood-slicked, body-soaked fiction. From the fever dream obsession of Hexis to the razor-tongued fury of The Devil Thinks I’m Pretty and the academic carnage of Violent Faculties, Elsby doesn’t just dissect the human condition - she throws it on the autopsy table and lights a cigarette. Her work is heady, haunting, and unapologetically feral - a Molotov cocktail of intellect and impulse hurled straight into the literary void.
Evan Dean Shelton
Evan Dean Shelton is the chaos conjurer your mom warned you about - part horror scribe, part black metal prophet, and all firestarter. He’s the mad architect behind In the Shadow of the Horns, a grimy, corpse-painted anthology that fuses corpse riffs with cursed ink. His own literary pipe bomb Churchburner is what happens when gangsta rap, black metal, and metafiction snort a line of holy ash and kick in the church doors. But Shelton isn’t just bleeding on the page - he’s summoning the underground as the organiser of VOIDCON. Whether he’s rattling eardrums in the noise scene or dropping spells via his Substack Notes from Necromanteia, Shelton doesn’t dabble in darkness - he orchestrates it.
Justin Lutz
Justin Lutz is Pennsylvania’s river-dwelling, Bigfoot-loving, Splatterpunk sorcerer - equal parts blood, ink, and Boss-era Springsteen. A writer, musician, and screen-printing savant, Lutz comes armed with a back catalogue that reads like a grindhouse mixtape: Gemini Rising drips with cosmic dread, Gone to Seed blooms with rot, and his killer short “Start Today” rips through Teenage Grave like a punk rock exorcism. He’s a proud member of the VOID Collective, slinging scares and screen-printed chaos at events like VOIDCON and Voidhaus. If you like your horror loud, weird, and soaked in outsider heart, Lutz is your guy - the kind of creator who’d high-five the Jersey Devil and hand you a zine printed in blood.
Sam Richard
Sam Richard is the grief-soaked godfather of punk horror - a literary necromancer who weaponised sorrow and turned it into Weirdpunk Books. From his haunted home base in Minneapolis, Richard bleeds raw, unflinching emotion into stories that fuse the grotesque with the poetic. His standout collection To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows doesn’t just crack your chest open - it crawls in and lights a cigarette. He’s also the unhinged editor behind cult-fave anthologies like Zombie Punks Fuck Off, The New Flesh (a gore-drenched love letter to Cronenberg), and Beautiful/Grotesque, each one a pit fight between art and atrocity. After losing his wife in 2017, Richard didn’t retreat - he screamed into the void and carved out a publishing house that champions the strange, the sorrowful, and the splatter-soaked. Sam Richard doesn’t do horror-lite. He does horror with teeth, heart, and a DIY bat to the face.
Michael Tichy
Michael Tichy writes like a man whose wrestled ghosts in the woods and came back with blood on his boots and stories etched into his spine. Based in Ohio and equal parts psychiatric nurse, Weird West wrangler, and eco-horror prophet. Tichy’s fiction reads like a fever dream filtered through peyote smoke and survival guilt. His breakout novella Behind Every Tree, Beneath Every Rock is grief-soaked body horror wrapped in moss and madness, while Wound of the West reanimates the frontier with grit, gunpowder, and otherworldly rot. Coming down the pipeline is The Winnowing Draw, a cursed hymn to the haunted heart of Americana. Co-editor of In the Eyes of the Hungry and co-conspirator behind VOIDCON, Tichy’s work is where trauma, transformation, and transcendental dread collide in a six-shooter duel at the edge of the void.
Nathan Ludwig
Nathan D. Ludwig is the mad bastard lovechild of grindhouse cinema and existential comedy, forged in the sweaty projection booth of a cursed indie theater somewhere in Virginia. He’s the brainsplattered ringmaster behind GenreBlast - one of the planet’s most batshit genre film festivals - and a co-architect of VOIDCON. On the page, Ludwig drops literary molotovs like Love Potion #666 and The Comfy-Cozy Nihilist, where vampires, interdimensional freaks, and anxiety-riddled weirdos do battle in stories laced with gallows humor and Lovecraftian hangovers. On screen, he’s produced nightmare fuel like Worst Laid Plans and directed fever dreams like After Dark in Crazy Town. Whether he’s writing, filming, or curating chaos, Ludwig isn’t just a genre guy - he’s a full-throttle cult commander in the church of the unholy and unforgettable.
Amanda Headlee
Amanda Headlee is the kind of horror storyteller who doesn’t just write about monsters - she straps on trail shoes, runs headlong into the wilderness, and dares them to flinch. Based in Pennsylvania and powered by Appalachian grit, she made her mark with Till We Become Monsters, a brutal tale of familial fractures and primal terror that reads like cosmic horror got lost in the woods and came back changed. She’s appeared in Wendigo-haunted anthologies and speculative graveyards alike, all while moonlighting as an endurance athlete and tech-world war chief. Amanda Headlee doesn’t just flirt with fear - she races it through the trees and drags it screaming onto the page.
Kyle Winkler
Kyle Winkler is the cosmic janitor of Ohio’s literary underbelly - scraping dread from the floorboards of reality and repackaging it into stories that bleed, mutate, and whisper. An English professor by day and weird fiction maestro by night, Winkler crafts nightmares that slither somewhere between Cronenberg and Kafka. In The Nothing That Is, haunted furniture and biker cults ride shotgun with interdimensional terror. Grasshands takes root in your spine with librarian-on-moss horror, while OH PAIN is a literary exorcism of transformation and existential rot. With brain-benders like Tone-Bone and Enter the Peerless, Winkler proves that horror doesn’t have to scream - it can exist just as quietly, gnawing at the edges of your sanity. If academia had a haunted wing, Kyle Winkler would be the guy teaching from a cursed lectern.
Where can I get more VoidCon 3 Information?
Keep your eyes peeled for more schedule details and announcements soon. Until then, book your hotel, prep your reading list, and mark your calendars. VoidCon 3 awaits… and it’s calling you into the Void.